The trees lining Kitayama-dori Street, which runs through Kyoto City's Sakyo and Kita Wards, are beginning to change color. The trees planted along the sidewalks and in the median strips of the roadway are a delight to passersby and tourists alike, ablaze with red, orange, and yellow.
Along Kitayama-dori Street, which connects Yamabata Ichimachidamachi in Sakyo Ward and Murasakinosendocho in Kita Ward, a roughly 3-kilometer stretch between the Takano River (Matsugazaki, Sakyo Ward) and the Kamo River (Kamigamo, Kita Ward) is lined with zelkova, ginkgo, and trident maple trees.
Typically, as the cold winds begin to blow in November, the trees begin to change color. On the afternoon of November 18th, a cold front passed through, creating a winter-like atmospheric pressure pattern with high pressure in the west and low pressure in the east. The trees swayed in the cold northerly wind, scattering fallen leaves here and there.
